Employment
Employment: Little Rock Catering, located in western Arkansas, provides food for special events and wedding consulting services. The business is privately owned and has seven employees. Sam, a 45-year-old lesbian, plied for the position of event services coordinator and was denied the position. Sam was highly qualified, with 10 years of experience in event planning. Mary Beth, a 21-year-old recent college graduate and member of the owner’s church, was hired.
Research the state laws on nondiscrimination in Arkansas and your state.
- On the basis of Arkansas state law and federal law, what is the probable outcome of a lawsuit based on sexual orientation discrimination?
- On the basis of Arkansas state law and federal law, what is the probable outcome of a lawsuit based on age discrimination?
- Would the outcome of a lawsuit based on sexual orientation discrimination be different if the catering company was located in your state?
Answer previewBasing on the Arkansas law, it has religious freedom which does allow discrimination against people like Sam who is a lesbian when it comes to working as they deemed unfit and cause a lack of comfort in job places. The federal law has outright permission for both individual employers and businesses to discriminate in job selection and employment based on their sexual orientation of the applicant for the job vacancies (Walsh, 2015).In a lawsuit against little rock catering the probable outcome will be not guilty since both the Arkansas law and federal law do allow discrimination on the basis sexual orientation of the person.
Basing on civil rights act of Arkansas it does not contain…
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